Do y'all remember Billy Beer? Was named after President Carters brother Billy. I was watching a show about the late 70's early 80's and had a segment on Billy Carter and his Billy Beer. I have a friend that still has a six pack of it displayed on a shelf in his office.
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Originally posted by MeanWillieGreen: I have a Billy can or two myself. When I collected beer cans heavily, I was about 12, so I never tasted that one.
You didn't miss anything. Low alcohol, low flavor & low sales after the initial novelty wore off.
I think it was brewed by the Pearl Brewing Company.
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Billy, his gas station, Miss Lillian, and the peanut farm. Do you remember the sitcom "Carter Country"? How about "Alice" ("Mel, kiss my grits"), "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"? The original SNL cast...how about the one where Dan Akryod, playing Jimmy Carter, turns into the 100 foot man after a cola soda spilled induced nuclear power accident ala Three Mile Island and the "China Syndrome"? They called it the "Pepsi Syndrome" Two great scenes from the sketch had the scientists discussing whether the same effect could be had from spilling a 7-Up..."well no, that's an Uncola" and Rodney Dangerfield describing to Mrs. Carter how big the president truly now was "He's so big, he could make love to the Holland Tunnel"...Carter ends up marrying Garret Morris as a female janitor who also became 100 ft tall after cleaning up the spilled radioactive water. He/She says..."Nuclear power is the best thing that ever happened to me, baby". Man, I almost peed my pants watching that show every Saturday.
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I'll check, I think I have a six-pack unopened that I might trade for something of value. And some lucky person can report back on its "aging qualities.
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Originally posted by badburn: I'll check, I think I have a six-pack unopened that I might trade for something of value. And some lucky person can report back on its "aging qualities.
Problem is everyone held on to cans of Billy Beer, so they are actually worthless. You could always take the empties to Michigan for 10 cents per can!
Originally posted by badburn: I'll check, I think I have a six-pack unopened that I might trade for something of value. And some lucky person can report back on its "aging qualities.
Problem is everyone held on to cans of Billy Beer, so they are actually worthless. You could always take the empties to Michigan for 10 cents per can!
But I only said something of value. You gotta figure that to ship a six-pack anywhere is going to cost at least 6 bucks. So what ever you would trade for it, since it is valueless, should equal plus shipping the shipping cost of the six-pack.
Yeah, I know, sometimes my wife says my logic defies good sense.
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Yep, I remember that stuff. Was originally put out by the Falls City Brewing company in Louisville, Kentucky, and they never lived it down. The regular Falls City Beer was pretty good beer, Billy Beer was horrible swill. Shortly after that Falls City Brewery shut down.
I think I still have a couple of Billy Beer Bic lighters though.
Mike
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Yep, I think Pearl was responsible for "brewing" Billy Beer; what horrid stuff! That was one of many crappy beers they've turned out over the years. I'm originally from San Antonio, so Pearl has a special place in my heart (but not my cooler!) The two biggies back in the day in SA were Pearl and Lone Star, and if I'm not mistaken, they're both now produced by the same company, which also produces Busch Natural Light and Pabst Blue Ribbon among other "regional" labels. In Silver Spring, MD recently, I was astonished how many customers would come into the bar I was at and order a PBR! I though I had fallen through a "brewing worm hole!"
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